Hope, Fear, Anger, Courage and Love in Times of Climate Crisis : Are Resources from Christian Faith and Tradition Useful?

Several studies have been conducted on how young persons relate to the climate crisis, and by whom they are influenced. Particularly for the young persons, having inadequate meaning and hope can be detrimental for one’s copying with the impacts of the climate crisis. While religion is not the major source of hope for young persons in relatively secularised countries, the realities are that the churches have several encounters with young persons. Moreover, churches are in an obvious position to convey messages on how to relate to nature and climate. Notwithstanding that parents, friends and teachers are obviously more important for the formation of young persons as compared to persons afilliated with churches, the churches have several resources from their cosmology that should be applied more